Replenishing the Earth

Replenishing the Earth
Author: James Belich
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2011-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199604541

Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how this laid the basis of British and American power in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Australian Rare Books 1788-1900

Australian Rare Books 1788-1900
Author: Jonathan Wantrup
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040289371

This book is a demonstration of the richness, worth and vitality of Australian documentary record. At the same time, it is an introduction to collecting Australiana for those who, if not already bitten by the book bug, have been dangerously exposed to it. Readers who are immune to the attractions of collecting but who value our past and its books will also find something to interest them in the following pages.